The Levites are an Interesting Bunch.

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The Levites were priestly class. Blessed by God in some kind special way.


Urim and the Thummim.

  • Ex 28:30 - And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly
  • Ezra 2:63 - The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

What was the unholy things they ate? I take it it was not to accept what they had been told until they received the truth by the prophecies of Urim and Thummim and not to act because that was the job of the Kings.

I suppose someone had the jobs of protecting the Kings, and the Priests were the ones. Like the papacy today has always been involved with the Kings.

Interesting stuff.

I take what I said back what I said about the Catholic Church. 😊
 
Via dolarossa said:
The Levites were priestly class. Blessed by God in some kind special way.

Urim and the Thummim.
  • Ex 28:30 - And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly
  • Ezra 2:63 - The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

What was the unholy things they ate? I take it it was not to accept what they had been told until they received the truth by the prophecies of Urim and Thummim and not to act because that was the job of the Kings.
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The context of Ezra 2 has to do with establishing a bloodline, an ancestry. The purity of the priesthood and the temple was at stake. Priests who were unable to prove their lineage were disqualified from their posts.

Note verses 2:61-62: "the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name). These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean."

The sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai were thought to be sons of priests. In order to prove this claimed a registration was checked in the family genealogies. However their names where not found, so they were to be exclude (at least for the time being) from the "holy things\food" because they could not prove they were descendants of the priestly line.

A provision in the Law was made for the sons of Aaron to receive a portion of the sacrifices for their service.

Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due. This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons. In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you. This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it." (Num. 18:8-11)​
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Of course there are other passages as well which support this point (Lev. 2:3; 7:1-6; 7:32-33).
 
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